What Will Libraries Look Like in the Next Twenty Years?

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Driven by a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrialtransformation, librarianship, like other industries, is facing opportunities and challenges oftransformation and upgrading. On the one hand, the library is expanding from information processingand information service to a wider range of academic exchanges and research, and its service focus ischanging from serving readers in the library to responding to social (community) development needs.On the other hand, the steady progress of the open access movement in the past two decades has createda favorable environment for libraries to evolve towards knowledge infrastructure. In the next twodecades, libraries will play an increasingly important role in the construction of knowledge infrastructureand the advancement of open science. The author uses three keywords – connection, navigation andcreation – to propose the direction of future efforts. First, librarians must become promoters and leadersof connections, exerting their ability to organize, coordinate and mobilize various resources. Second,librarians must actively participate in the process of open science development and give full play to theirexpertise in resource management, data utilization and reference service. Third, libraries should strive tocreate an environment conducive to user innovation and creation, so as to assist economic and culturaldevelopment.

Wu Jianzhong (University of Macau Library). What Will Libraries Look Like in the Next Twenty Years?[J]. Libraly Journal, 2023, 42(391): 4-9.

What Will Libraries Look Like in the Next Twenty Years?

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